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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Wispy fractures cut through cratered terrain on Saturn's moon Rhea in this high resolution, 3-D image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. 3D glasses are necessary to identify surface detail.
PIA12807:
Rhea's Fractured Terrain in 3-D
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Hemispheric color differences on Saturn's moon Rhea are apparent in this false-color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. This image shows the side of the moon that always faces the planet.
PIA12808:
False-Color Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2010-12-21 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Icy fractures on Saturn's moon Rhea reflect sunlight brightly in this high-resolution mosaic created from images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its March 2, 2010, flyby.
PIA12809:
Rhea's Western Wisps
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-02-28 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks past the cratered south polar area of Saturn's moon Rhea to spy the moon Dione and the planet's rings in the distance. Dione's 'wispy' terrain can be seen on the trailing hemisphere of that moon.
PIA12755:
Beyond Southern Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-04-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Rhea and Dione seem like dark and light fraternal twins in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, with each of these two Saturnian moons displaying a large crater oriented similarly in the northern hemisphere.
PIA12760:
Look-alike Moons
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-02 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This global digital map of Rhea was created using data taken during NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys. This map contains data from Cassini's Jan. 11, 2011, flyby of Rhea. Six Voyager images fill gaps in Cassini's coverage of the north pole.
PIA12821:
Map of Rhea - January 2011
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-02 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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The northern and southern hemispheres of Rhea are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available NASA Cassini and Voyager images. Six Voyager images fill in gaps in Cassini's coverage of the moon's north pole.
PIA12822:
Rhea North Polar Maps - January 2011
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-02 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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The northern and southern hemispheres of Rhea are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available NASA Cassini and Voyager images. Six Voyager images fill in gaps in Cassini's coverage of the moon's north pole.
PIA12823:
Rhea South Polar Map - January 2011
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-23 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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Five moons, dominated by Rhea in the foreground, share NASA's Cassini spacecraft view with Saturn's rings seen nearly edge-on. Also seen here are Dione, Epimetheus, Prometheus, and Tethys.
PIA12767:
Five Orbs
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-05-30 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Thin lineaments cross back and forth, intersecting craters on the surface of Saturn's moon Rhea in this equatorial view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA12768:
Crisscrossing Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2011-09-19 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Southern terrain on Saturn's moon Rhea is dimly illuminated by Saturnshine in this view of the dark side of the moon captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA14574:
Rhea Lit at Night
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-23 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini looks over the heavily cratered surface of Rhea during the spacecraft's flyby of the moon on March 10, 2012.
PIA14605:
Bombarded Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-04-30 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Wide Angle
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A pair of Saturn's many moons joins the planet in this scene captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Tethys appears as a small white dot above the rings on the far left, Enceladus appears as a smaller bright speck beside the planet.
PIA14606:
Moon Specks
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-16 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
Imaging Science Subsystem
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This global digital map of Rhea was created using data taken during NASA's Cassini and Voyager spacecraft flybys.
PIA14928:
Map of Rhea - March 2012
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-16 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The northern and southern hemispheres of Rhea are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available NASA's Cassini and Voyager images.
PIA14929:
Rhea Polar Maps - March 2012
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Add Image to Favorite List 2012-08-16 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The northern and southern hemispheres of Rhea are seen in these polar stereographic maps, mosaicked from the best-available NASA's Cassini and Voyager images.
PIA14930:
Rhea Polar Maps - March 2012
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-02-11 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft captures Saturn's moon Rhea at crescent phase, a view never visible from Earth. Near the terminator, a few of Rhea's many craters show up in sharp relief.
PIA14647:
Crescent Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-03-25 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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The surface of Saturn's moon Rhea bears witness to its violent history. Each crater seen here by NASA's Cassini spacecraft records an impact in the moon's past.
PIA14654:
Rhea's Record
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Add Image to Favorite List 2013-05-13 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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On its fourth and final targeted flyby of Rhea, NASA's Cassini spacecraft provided this stunning view of the ancient and heavily cratered surface. Billions of years of impacts have sculpted Rhea's surface into the form we see today.
PIA14660:
Goodbye to Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-10 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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A nearly full Rhea shines in the sunlight in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. Rhea (949 miles, or 1,527 kilometers across) is Saturn's second largest moon.
PIA17155:
Rhea's Day in the Sun
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Add Image to Favorite List 2014-11-04 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This set of global, color mosaics of Saturn's moon Rhea was produced from images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft during its first ten years exploring the Saturn system.
PIA18438:
Color Maps of Rhea - 2014
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-01-12 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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A bright spot can be seen on the left side of Rhea in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The spot is the crater Inktomi, named for a Lakota spider spirit.
PIA18300:
Little Bright Spot
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-03-30 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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NASA's Cassini captured these views of Saturn's icy moon Rhea on Feb. 9. The spacecraft returned to equatorial orbits around Saturn in March after nearly two years, allowing the mission to once again have close encounters with moons other than Titan.
PIA19057:
Return to Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-08-01 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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Rhea, like many moons in the outer solar system, appears dazzlingly bright in full sunlight. This is the signature of the water ice that forms most of the moon's surface, as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA20495:
Regarding Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-04-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Surface features on Rhea, mostly impact craters in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, are thrown into sharp relief thanks to long shadows.
PIA18310:
Rhea in Relief
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Add Image to Favorite List 2015-05-25 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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Rhea's horizon is slightly irregular and battered by craters, so thoughts inevitably turn towards the forces that shape these icy worlds. This image is from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA18316:
Rhea's Horizon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-03-07 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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he view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks toward the anti-Saturn sides of Tethys and Rhea. North on both moons is up. Rhea and Tethys are medium-sized moons that are large enough to have pulled themselves into round shapes.
PIA18363:
The Saturnian Sisters
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Add Image to Favorite List 2017-11-20 Rhea Cassini-Huygens
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This image is of NASA's Cassini spacecraft's final observation of Saturn's icy moon Rhea on May 2, 2017. The spacecraft was at the time high above the plane of Saturn's rings, looking down at Rhea's northern hemisphere.
PIA21354:
Above Rhea
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Add Image to Favorite List 1997-05-24 S Rings Voyager
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This wide-angle image of Saturn's rings was taken Aug. 26 just before NASA's Voyager 2's crossing of the plane of these complex structures. The spacecraft was 103,000 kilometers (64,000 miles) from the rings when it acquired this image.
PIA00534:
Wide-Angle Image of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-13 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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Both the limb of Saturn and the shadow of its ring system are seen through the transparent C-ring in this striking picture taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 9, 1980. Gaps and regions of high transparency are seen throughout the C-ring, especially in the a
PIA01374:
Saturn's Ring System
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-17 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This photograph captured by NASA's Voyager 2 photograph of the lit face of Saturn's B-ring was obtained Aug. 25, 1980. It shows the ring structure broken up into about 10 times more ringlets than had been previously suspected.
PIA01380:
A View of Saturn's B-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-17 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Voyager 2 discovered a 'kinky' ringlet inside the Encke Gap in Saturn's A-ring. These pictures show the thin ringlet at two different positions, photographed Aug. 25, 1980.
PIA01381:
Thin Ringlet of Saturn's A-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-11-17 S Rings Voyager
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this picture of Saturn's F-ring on Aug. 26, 1980, just before the spacecraft crossed the planet's ring plane. This edge-on view shows nearly 25` of the F-ring, with at least four distinct components visible.
PIA01382:
A View of Saturn's F-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-06 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this high-resolution image of Saturn's F-ring Aug. 26, 1980 from a distance of 51,500 kilometers (32,000 miles). This closeup view shows that the ring is made up of at least four distinct components.
PIA01387:
Image of Saturn's F-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-05 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Voyager 2 took this picture of Saturn's faint inner D-ring Aug. 25, 1981, about 1 hour 48 minutes before the spacecraft's closest approach to Saturn. The range was 195,400 kilometers (121,300 miles)
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PIA01388:
Saturn's Faint Inner D-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-18 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This view shows some detail and differences in the complex system of rings. This was one of the first pictures obtained once NASA's Voyager 2 resumed returning images Aug. 29, 1979 after its scan platform was commanded to view Saturn.
PIA01389:
View of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-01-05 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This composite image shows two views of the outer edge of Saturn's B-ring (left) and the inner part of the Cassini Division (right) in the rings as seen by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 25, 1981.
PIA01390:
Outer edge of Saturn's B-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1998-10-30 S Rings Voyager
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Possible variations in chemical composition from one part of Saturn's ring system to another are visible in this archival image from NASA's Voyager 2.
PIA01486:
Composition Differences within Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-05-08 S Rings Voyager
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This view focused on Saturn's C-ring (and to a lesser extent, the B-ring at top and left) and was compiled from three separate images taken by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 23, 1981.
PIA01531:
Saturn's B and C-rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-11 S Rings Voyager
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Saturn's F-ring and its inner shepherding satellite (1980S27) are pictured in this closeup of NASA's Voyager 2 image acquired Aug. 25,1981, from a range of 365,000 kilometers (227,000 miles).
PIA01951:
Saturn's F-ring and Inner Satellite
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NASA's Voyager 2 acquired this photograph of Saturn's A-ring Aug. 26, 1981, from a distance of 227,800 kilometers (141,500 miles). This view of the ring's outer edge shows a small bright, clumpy ring within the Encke Gap.
PIA01952:
Saturn's A-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-11 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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The outer edge of Saturn's A-ring is detailed in this image obtained by NASA's Voyager 2 on Aug. 26, 1981, just half an hour before closest approach, at a range of about 51,000 kilometers (31,700 miles).
PIA01953:
Outer Edge of Saturn's A-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-11 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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Spokes are seen on the unlit side of Saturn's rings for the first time in this image from NASA's Voyager 2 wide-angle view obtained Aug. 28, 1981, from a distance of 3.4 million kilometers (2.1 million miles).
PIA01955:
Spokes on Side of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-25 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Voyager 2 high-resolution view of Saturn's rings on Aug. 23, 1981, at a range of 3.3 million kilometers (2 million miles). The planet's limb is visible through the C-ring and the inner part of the B-ring.
PIA01962:
High-resolution View of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-04-28 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This long exposure of the ring region about 150,000 to 200,000 kilometers (90,000 to 120,000 miles) from the center of Saturn captured the very faint G-ring, seen at left. NASA's Voyager 2 took this image on Aug. 26, 1981.
PIA01964:
Saturn's Ring Region
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-07-23 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This view of Saturn's A-ring was obtained Aug. 23, when NASA's Voyager 2 was about 2.8 million kilometers (1.7 million miles) from the planet.
PIA01988:
Saturn's A-Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 1999-12-10 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This computer-assembled two-image mosaic of Saturn's rings, taken by NASA's Voyager 1 on Nov. 6, 1980 at a range of 8 million kilometers (5 million miles), shows approximately 95 individual concentric features in the rings.
PIA02227:
Two-image Mosaic of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-07 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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When seen from the unlit side, the rings of Saturn present a much different appearance from that familiar to telescopic observers, as shown in this image captured by NASA's Voyager 1.
PIA02241:
Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-02-07 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This detailed mosaic of the underside of the Cassini Division was obtained by NASA's Voyager 1 with a resolution of about 10 kilometers.
PIA02242:
Mosaic of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Voyager 1 has found a 15th moon orbiting Saturn, visible near the bottom of this picture taken on Nov. 6, 1980, when the spacecraft was still 8 million kilometers (5 million miles) from Saturn.
PIA02263:
Saturn's 15th moon, 1980S28
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 S Rings Voyager
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Eight hours after its closest approach to Saturn on Nov. 12, 1980, NASA's Voyager 1 took this picture of the planet's ring system.
PIA02269:
Saturn's Ring System
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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The crescent of Saturn, the planet's rings and their shadows are seen in this NASA Voyager 1 image taken Nov. 13, 1980 at a distance of 1,500,000 kilometers (930,000 miles) as the spacecraft began to leave the Saturn system.
PIA02271:
Crescent of Saturn
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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Prominent dark spokes are visible in the outer half of Saturn's broad B-ring in this NASA Voyager 2 photograph taken on Aug. 3, 1981 from a range of about 22 million kilometers (14 million miles).
PIA02274:
Saturn's B-ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-23 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Voyager 2 obtained this high-resolution picture of Saturn's rings Aug. 22, when the spacecraft was 4 million kilometers (2.5 million miles) away.
PIA02275:
Saturn's Rings - High Resolution
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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NASA's Voyager 2 returned this wide-angle, clear-filtered image of the shadow of Saturn upon the rings just after engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory successfully commanded the camera platform to point to the planet.
PIA02285:
Saturn's Shadow Upon the Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's B Ring and Cassini Division was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 through the Clear filter from a distance of 12.6 million km on 3 November 1980.
PIA02289:
Saturn's B rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's F Ring was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 through the Clear filter while at a distance of 0.75 million km from Saturn on 12 November 1980.
PIA02292:
Saturn's F-Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2000-05-25 S Rings Voyager
VG ISS - Narrow Angle
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This narrow-angle camera image of Saturn's F Ring was taken by NASA's Voyager 1 through the Clear filter while at a distance of 6.9 million km from Saturn on 8 November 1980.
PIA02293:
Saturn's F-Ring
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-25 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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The two prominent dark gaps in Saturn's A ring contain small embedded moons and a host of other intriguing features as seen by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA08295:
Tiny Moons, Big Effects
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-06-02 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image of Saturn captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows white feathery clouds near 45 degrees south latitude.
PIA05400:
Atmospheric Detail in the Near Infrared
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
ISS - Narrow Angle
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This image shows the region of Saturn's rings known as the Cassini Division. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06092:
Cassini Captures the Cassini Division
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This image shows a bending wave (right) and density wave in Saturn's A ring, interior to the Encke Gap. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06093:
Two Waves in One Spectacular Image of Saturn's Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft after it successfully entered Saturn's orbit.
PIA06094:
Rippling Rings
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows three density waves in Saturn's A ring. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06095:
Rings Full of Waves
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This image shows a close-up view of a density wave in Saturn's A ring. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06096:
Rings Full of Waves (zoom)
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Add Image to Favorite List 2004-07-01 S Rings Cassini-Huygens
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This is one of the first images of Saturn's F ring taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft after it successfully entered Saturn's orbit.
PIA06097:
Cassini's First Picture of F Ring
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This is one of the first images of Saturn's F ring taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft after it successfully entered Saturn's orbit.
PIA06098:
Wide View of Saturn's F Ring
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This image shows in superb detail the region in Saturn's rings known as the Encke Gap. It was taken by the narrow angle camera on NASA's Cassini spacecraft after successful entry into Saturn's orbit.
PIA06099:
The Encke Gap as Never Seen Before
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The best view of Saturn's rings in the ultraviolet indicates there is more ice toward the outer part of the rings, than in the inner part, as shown in this image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA05075:
Saturn's A Ring From the Inside Out
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Images taken during NASA's Cassini spacecraft's orbital insertion on June 30 show definite compositional variation within the rings.
PIA05076:
Saturn's C and B Rings From the Inside Out
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This image of the lit face of Saturn's outer, or A ring was taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shortly after crossing the ring plane after its orbit insertion burn.
PIA06709:
Rings Galore
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This false color image of two density waves in Saturn's A ring was made from the stellar occultation observed by NASA's Cassini's ultraviolet imaging spectrograph when the spacecraft was 6.3 million kilometers (4 million miles) from Saturn.
PIA06994:
Catching Saturn's Ring Waves
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Saturn hosts its own miniature solar system, with an entourage of more than 30 moons. This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's A and F rings.
PIA06522:
Atlas, Pandora and Janus
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows an amazing close-up of Saturn's rings, revealing their incredible variety.
PIA07512:
Scanning the Rings
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This close-up image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft peers directly through regions of the A, B and C rings (from top to bottom here) to glimpse shadows of the very same rings cast upon the planet's atmosphere.
PIA07513:
Looking Through the Rings
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft's climb to progressively higher elevations reveals the 'negative' side of Saturn's rings.
PIA07520:
What's That Speck?
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This montage of four images of Saturn's knotted F ring shows different locations around the ring, even though all taken within a few hours of each other. These images were taken in visible light with NASA's Cassini spacecraft's narrow-angle camera.
PIA07522:
Four Views of the F Ring
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The shepherd moon, Pandora, is seen here alongside the narrow F ring that it helps maintain. Pandora is 84 kilometers (52 miles) across. NASA's Cassini spacecraft obtained this view from about four degrees above the ringplane.
PIA07523:
Pandora's Flocks
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft swung in close to Saturn as it rounded the planet's night side, beginning another orbit and moving to progressively higher elevations in order to study the rings.
PIA07532:
Toward the Dayside
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This image captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn's Encke Gap (325 kilometers, or 200 miles wide) whose center is 133,590 kilometers (83,010 miles) from Saturn. This division in the rings is home to the small moon called Pan.
PIA07533:
Resonant Effects
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Saturn's moons Prometheus and Pandora are captured here in a single image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken from less than a degree above the dark side of Saturn's rings.
PIA07544:
F Ring Shepherds
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Turbulent swirls churn in Saturn's atmosphere while the planet's rings form a dazzling backdrop. The rings' complex structure is clearly evident in this view captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA07552:
Beyond the Limb
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The 'opposition effect' can be seen in this image of Saturn's B ring from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The bright spot occurs where the angle between the spacecraft, the Sun and the rings is near zero.
PIA07556:
Opposition View
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These views from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, taken two hours apart, demonstrate the dramatic variability in the structure of Saturn's intriguing F ring.
PIA07558:
Two F Ring Views
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This image from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows the unlit face of Saturn's rings, visible via scattered and transmitted light.
PIA07559:
Luminescent Rings
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This close-up view is NASA's Cassini spacecraft's best look yet at Saturn's tenuous innermost D ring. The narrow ringlet visible here is named 'D68' and is the innermost discrete feature in the D ring.
PIA07568:
D is for "Dust"
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Swirling cloud bands, delicate ring shadows and icy moons make the Saturn system a place of supreme natural beauty. Even NASA's Cassini spacecraft's remarkable images can only provide the slightest sense of the experience of actually being there.
PIA07569:
Supreme Beauty
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This is an artist's concept of Saturn's rings and major icy moons. Saturn's rings make up an enormous, complex structure. From edge-to-edge, the ring system would not even fit in the distance between Earth and the Moon.
PIA03550:
Saturn's Rings (Artist's Concept)
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NASA's Cassini spacecraft turns its gaze toward Saturn's outer A ring to find the moon Pan coasting behind one of the thin ringlets with which it shares the Encke Gap.
PIA07574:
Ring Study Subjects
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The extreme contrast in this view of the unlit side of Saturn's rings captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft is intentional. Contrast-enhanced views like this are used to look for spokes, but so far, none have been seen by Cassini.
PIA07576:
On the Lookout for Spokes
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This magnificent view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft looks down upon, and partially through, Saturn's rings from their unlit side. The densest part of the rings occults the bright globe of Saturn.
PIA07578:
Diagnostic Darkness
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From just outside the faint edge of Saturn's F ring, the moon Pandora keeps watch over her fine-grained flock as seen by NASA's Cassini orbiter.
PIA07579:
Keeping Things in Check
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This frame from a movie sequence from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows dark drapes in the inner strands of Saturn's F ring caused by the gravitational influence of the shepherd moon Prometheus (102 kilometers, or 63 miles across).
PIA07712:
Shaping the Drapes Animation Icon
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A solitary clump-like feature in Saturn's F ring orbits past in this frame from a movie sequence made from NASA's Cassini images.
PIA07713:
Unidentified F Ring Objects Animation Icon
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Voyager
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This montage of images from the NASA's Cassini and Voyager missions shows that structural evolution has occurred in Saturn's D ring (the innermost ring). The inset image reveals structure with an unprecedented level of fine detail.
PIA07714:
D Ring Revelations
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Voyager
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This view is part of a montage of images from NASA's Cassini and Voyager missions. This image shows the region between the D ring feature named D73 and the inner edge of the C-ring.
PIA07715:
D Ring Revelations (Inset image)
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This montage of four enhanced NASA Cassini narrow-angle camera images shows bright clump-like features at different locations within the F ring.
PIA07716:
The Clump/Moon Mystery
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Imaging Science Subsystem
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This map compiled by NASA's Cassini spacecraft of Saturn's F ring illustrates how the ghostly strands flanking the core of this contorted ring, when examined in detail, actually form a spiral structure wound like a spring around the planet.
PIA07717:
The F Ring's Spiral Arm
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This sequence of images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft shows a faint arc of material in Saturn's G ring, a tenuous ring outside the main ring system. These images were each taken about 45 minutes apart.
PIA07718:
Arc in the Tenuous G Ring
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The left image is a false-color view of Saturn's A ring from the ultraviolet imaging spectrograph instrument aboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
PIA03556:
Clumps in the A Ring
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